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Shannon Kos will be speaking at the 17th Annual National Expert Witness Conference on June 19, 2008. Shannon's talk, entitled "When Experts Need to Retain Counsel: Daubert & Beyond," will focus on why experts should anticipate and be prepared for the real threat of serious career damage due to an adverse ruling in Daubert.
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Noreen L. Slank has been honored as one of 12 lawyers practicing in Michigan, to receive Michigan Lawyers Weekly's 2007 Lawyers of the Year award. Honorees are selected from among the almost 40,000 practicing lawyers in Michigan, based upon remarkable accomplishments and contributions to their profession as well as their commitment to the rule of law. Slank was recognized for her successful fight in Trentadue v Gorton, 479 Mich 378 (2007), to end the common law discovery rule and to restore a legislatively mandated statute of limitations.
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Donald Campbell has been invited to give an address during "Ethos Week" at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University on March 12, 2008. Ethos is a Greek word meaning "character". Ethos Week is designed to challenge students to think beyond ethics, and focus on creating a professional environment for students, faculty and staff. Don's topic will be "Corporate Law: Ethics vs Ethos".
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At
the American Bar Association's 2007 National
Conference on Professional Responsibility
held in Chicago, Don Campbell moderated a
program entitled: Ethics for the Ages:
Graceful Graying or Senior Tsunami. Don led
a panel of lawyers and health care
specialists in a discussion the aging of the
legal profession and its impact on the
lawyer regulatory system with a focus on
what measures can be used to humanely and
efficiently address the problems of
age-related impairment and illness that are
anticipated to arise with increasing
frequency among practicing lawyers.
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David
C. Anderson has been selected
by the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel to
receive the Third Annual Young Lawyer's
Section - Golden Gavel Award . The Golden
Gavel Award recognizes young lawyers who
have demonstrated significant achievement in
the area of advancing "young attorneys" by
way of mentoring, awards, civic leadership,
charitable endeavors and pro bono
representation. David focuses his practice
on professional liability defense and has
successfully defended lawyers, accountants,
medical professionals and real estate
professionals against malpractice claims.
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Collins,
Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff, P.C. is pleased
to announce that
ALLEN J. WALL
has joined the firm's Worker's Compensation
Section. Mr. Wall adds his 28 years of
experience in the Worker's Compensation area
to that of experienced partner Kenneth
Merritt, thus augmenting the firm's
expertise and ability to handle the most
complex Worker's Compensation cases.
Mr. Wall has successfully handled hundreds
of Worker's Compensation Claims throughout
Michigan.
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Noreen
L. Slank has been named one of Michigan's
best appellate lawyers, according to "The
Best Lawyers in America" 2007
list. Slank is one of only 13
appellate lawyers in Michigan selected for
this new 2007 category.
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Four lawyers
from Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff
have been selected as "Michigan Super
Lawyers" for the inaugural 2006 list:
Debora A. Herbert,
Janice G. Hildenbrand,
Noreen L. Slank
and
Michael J. Sullivan.
Only five percent of Michigan attorneys were
named "Michigan Super Lawyers."
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The firms'
five-attorney appellate department has three
cases in the Michigan Supreme Court in the
'06-'07 term: a statute of limitation case
where the Court has asked the parties to
brief whether all discovery rules must be
statutory (Trentadue v MFO Management),
and two contractual indemnity cases (Tri-County v Hills Pet and
Lanzo Construction v Wayne Steel).
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David
C. Anderson obtained summary disposition on
behalf of a patent lawyer who was sued for
allegedly failing to timely file a patent
assignment from the inventor to the
plaintiff corporation and for allegedly
failing to obtain the broadest patent
possible under the law.
Mr. Anderson persuaded
the Oakland County Circuit Court that the
plaintiff could not establish proximate
cause, and in December of 2006, the Court
granted summary disposition in favor of the
patent lawyer.
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Donald
Campbell will be addressing the Association
of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
Mid-Year Meeting in Miami, Florida on
February 10, 2007. He will be
discussing "Attorney Free Speech Rights
after Grievance Administrator v Fieger".
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Donald
Campbell will be chairing a panel discussion
on Lawyer Disability and Professional
Responsibility entitled "Ethics for the
Ages: Graceful Graying of Senior Tsunami" at
the American Bar Association Center for
Professional Responsibility Annual Meeting
in Chicago, Illinois.
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Shannon
Kos coauthored an article on defending
product liability lawsuits titled Product
Testing for Use at Trial published in the
December 2006 issue of the Defense Research
Institute's magazine For the Defense.
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In
April of 2006,
Deborah Hebert obtained the reversal of a
$600,000 judgment in the Court of Appeals on
behalf of a property owner who used it for
his auto shop business, which was
incorporated. The Court agreed that the
exclusive remedy provision of the Workers'
Disability Compensation Act barred the
claim.
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Janice Hildenbrand has written a summary of Michigan
employment law as the Michigan state editor for DRI's
Employment Law: A State-by-State Compendium 2006.
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Noreen Slank spoke on issues related to the Michigan Court
of Appeals "rocket docket" at the December 6, 2005 seminar
presented by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE).
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December, 2005 - In recognition of his “burgeoning legal
skill and dedication to the Oakland County Bar Association"
James W. Low was recognized as “New Lawyer of the Month"
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December, 2005 Donald D. Campbell co-presented a seminar on
the Proposed Amendments to the Michigan Rules of
Professional Conduct at the Oakland County Bar Association's
State of the Law Day.
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Noreen Slank secured a stunning Michigan Supreme Court quick
reversal of the published decision in the case of Sorkowitz
v Lakritz, 261 Mich App 642 (2004). Claims of
negligently-rendered estate planning tax advice can be
proved only by resort to the estate planning documents. See
the Supreme Court's November 28, 2005 order at 474 Mich 925
(2005).
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Instead of a $150,000 loss in a contractual indemnity
lawsuit, the client secured a $150,000 win. Noreen Slank
handled the appeal in SMART v Madonna University, finalized
in the Michigan Supreme Court in the November 29, 2005 order
denying SMART's Application for Leave to Appeal.
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In September 2005 Donald D. Campbell was appointed co-chair
of the Committee on Ageing and the Profession a joint
project between the Association of Professional
Responsibility Lawyers and the National Organization of Bar
Counsel. The Committee creating ways to humanely and
efficiently address the problems that will clearly arise as
the profession ages and to fashion procedural and
substantive rule proposals which will both protect the
public and retain the dignity of the ageing lawyer. The
Committee hopes to provide a report to both organizations in
2006 and to the American Bar Association in 2006.
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September, 2005 - Richard Joslin defends medical malpractice
action, plaintiff sought $4 million in closing argument.
After 8 hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict
of no cause for action.
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September, 2005 - Deborah Hebert was installed as Chair of
the State Bar's Appellate Practice Section for term
2005-2006
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September 2005--Michigan Court of Appeals affirms summary
disposition of an age discrimination action filed by a 60
year old plaintiff who was terminated after 40 years of
employment when the defendant/employer eliminated his job as
part of a reduction in force; the appeal was argued by
Regina Delmastro.
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May, 2005 Geoffrey Brown was recognized by the Oakland
County Bar Association as "New Lawyer of the Month"
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In April 2005 Donald D. Campbell was selected to serve as an
expert witness to the State Bar of Michigan's Representative
Assembly's during the debate on the Proposed Amendments to
the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct and Proposed
Michigan Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions.
